THE vortex for your unedited self-expression CONTINUES. THE EXPERIMENT EXPANDS
Creative Living is a journey to liberate your most authentic expression through 8 weeks of guided writing exploration and somatic practices.
We created this portal so you can discover who you really are and create as if your voice is medicine in a culture quick to judge and slow to listen. This isn’t just for learning anymore. It’s for doing. This time, we’re taking action — together, in community, in real-time. Because there’s only so much you can discover in isolation.
$488 (OR 3 X $163)
Round TWO kicks off March 21 2025
Round TWO
You're drowning in silence.
Your mind is a constant hum of ideas, passions, and perspectives, you often feel you're bubbling over with potential.
But when it comes time to express the fullness of those ideas, you tend to
(externally & internally)
the words get stuck in your throat, trapped behind a wall of fears
Fear of saying the wrong thing
Fear of being misunderstood or judged
Fear of being "cancelled"
Fear of being seen in your "wrongness"
Fear of silence
Fear of not being "___ enough"
Fear of criticism or rejection
You worry that unless your words are immediately witnessed and praised, they don't count.
So the poetry never happens.
Your creativity is on autopilot.
The book never gets written.
The art never sees the light of day.
The fear that you feel of "being wrong" or "judged" is actually a fear of your own creative potential.
Listen Carefully
It's a fear that shows up when we know that we could have everything we have ever wanted... but what if it doesn't work and we're seen in our failure of trying to reach it?
Your full potential doesn't need to be "unlocked", it's already there, just waiting—it simply needs a channel to manifest and flow.
This journey is all about that: creating your own space to let loose and tap into your innate creative power.
The purpose of creation isn't the outcome. It is the act of creation itself that changes our lives.
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You hear the term “live community” everywhere, but what happens collectively in Creative Living can't quite be put into words.
Because Creative Living is a way of being, and a process of becoming, round two will be entirely dedicated to implementation, embodiment and integration — the bridge between inspiration and action.
Why “the vortex”
Writing circles
Mondays
Mondays: Lois leads a regenerative writing circle to kick off your week, offering a new challenge, intention, and theme that will shape your writing practice for the days ahead. This is where you set the tone, drop into your process, and build a habit that sticks.
Live Roundtables
The first four Fridays
Lois and Maia will host live workshops alternating Fridays for the first four weeks, where we’ll push our creative boundaries through interactive storytelling, play, and deep conversation. These are hands-on, immersive sessions where you don’t just listen — you participate, create, and experiment in real-time.
Integration Circles
The last four Fridays
Maia hosts an integration circle where you will be asked to arrive with no expectations, a journal, and maybe a box of tissues. This space invites everything to come together in a way that feels grounding yet deeply moving.
Practice circles
Daily Tues-Thurs
Tuesdays-Thursdays: Peer-led open writing circles for 30 minutes — you can bring whatever you're working on or the week’s prompts, join the space, and write in good company. No pressure, just presence. A space to get words on the page with the quiet support of others.
In these weeks we spend together, we witness a level of support and momentum that turns notes and drafts into full essays and shared pieces, and loose thoughts into form.
This is not another "container." It's a playground.
We call it a vortex because the energy and momentum created by the collective kick everyone into a wave that continues far beyond the program. Creative Living is a community for creative exploration.
your creativity & untamed expression thrive here
Imagine a space where your wildest ideas get to come out to play without the pressure of a specific reaction or business outcome. A space where your creativity is untamed, your voice is welcomed regardless of the algorithm and your expression isn’t edited for someone else’s comfort.
Not just a practice or workshops or a course that will sit in your email inbox. This community is a sanctuary for powerful creative energy.
This is what Creative Living has turned into.
Here, you don’t have to quiet your voice, dilute your edges, or second-guess your brilliance. This is a space designed to hold you exactly as you are — a creator in the middle of discovering, experimenting, and evolving.
A creative community that encourages you to go deep, build a consistent writing practice and uncover your greatest ideas.
What becomes possible when you are part of this kind of community? When you prioritise creative living?
You channel your boldest ideas into art, words, and work that you feel proud to share.
You practice your most daring thoughts in a safe, supportive space designed for creative expansion.
You create from a place of trust, not fear. No more questioning whether your ideas are “good enough.”
Because creativity isn’t something you control — it’s something you become.
In Round 2, we’ll take this work deeper. You’ll:
Explore the untamed, raw energy fuelling your creative force.
Practice radical honesty in your creative expression and find safety in your own voice.
Build a world where creativity doesn’t fit into a box — it creates the framework for how you live, connect and make an impact.
Learn to articulate your most controversial or boldest opinions with grace and power – even in the face of potential criticism. Explore what it actually means to be misunderstood, and why this is only really ever a good thing.
Master the art of being misunderstood
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Explore who you really want to be and what you'd say if you knew you couldn't be misunderstood or cancelled.
Reconnect with your authentic voice
two
Confront the narratives swarming your subconscious that are quietly holding you back from full self expression and discover who you really are beneath the layers of self-censorship and fear of judgement.
Uncover your hidden agenda
one
Through the Creative Living Foundations workshops, you'll learn and integrate:
shift
the
Release hidden fears you hold somatically. When you align with your body’s wisdom and your intuition, you access a little-known power that brings your best ideas to life more effortlessly.
Learn to channel your energy into creation by tapping into your body’s language
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Learn to value your creative process and output regardless of external response. Develop the resilience to keep creating, even when met with silence, knowing that your work has inherent worth.
Embrace the power of creating without immediate reward
five
Take your uncomfortable relationship with visibility and the belief that even using your voice is "wrong" or unnecessary (or you simply don’t have the time), and turn it into a tool for creating possibilities, opportunities, connection, and impact.
Stand tall in your truth
four
"Creative Living has made my life feel better, fuller, more joyful"
It has allowed me to connect with wonderful humans and with myself in a deeper, more conscious, more satisfying way. It has often sparked laughter and also tears, it has made the hues of color from my everyday life shine a little more brightly. It has allowed me to sink my teeth even deeper into the full juiciness of life. I would definitely recommend it to any person who wishes to live intentionally, to learn from a place of both child-like curiosity and a sage-like wisdom, to be present in the moment, and to trust themselves fully as they discover their true voice—which, by the way, is a daily journey, that be will yours to choose for every day of your life.
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the creative living workshops
As soon as you join, you'll get immediate access to our Creative Living Foundations, a series of workshops AND the Creative Living workbook. These workshops explore:↓
- Uncover your hidden agenda and abolish self-censorship
- Set powerful intentions for your creative journey
- Master the Excavation Framework to challenge hidden narratives
- Practice the Mirror Exercise to confront and reframe self-censorship
- Learn Hidden Agenda EFT (Tapping) to release fears
Are you who you think you are? (Throat Chakra)
- Exploring your visibility goals and the underlying mission driving them
- Engaging in discussions that challenge common beliefs
- The Sensory Scribe: Engaging all senses in your writing practice
- Somatics: 2nd chakra codes, reclaiming sensuality for creative expression.
Focus: Sacral Chakra – your creativity, sensuality, and self-expression
- Identifying and exploring your most controversial opinions
- The Eloquent Rebel: Developing techniques to express challenging ideas with clarity and compassion
- Copywriting alchemy to structure your multi-passionate, potentially conflicting message
- Somatics: building a morning practice for consistency + self-trust.
Tapping into the solar plexus chakra - your personal power and will
- Developing a personal manifesto of self-belief
- Creating a "courage toolkit" of affirmations and practices
- Designing a sustainable practice for consistent, brave communication
- Somatics: radiant body technology.
Focus: Heart Chakra – the energy of giving and receiving
round two roundtables
Week 1: Writing as Play → A card-prompt game to shake off creative stiffness and unlock your best ideas effortlessly.
Week 2: Energetics & Expression → Somatic journaling + creative flow techniques to write from the body, not just the mind.
Week 3: Embodied Visibility → A paired storytelling session where you’ll practice being seen, heard, and witnessed in your truth.
Week 4: Your Untamed World → Experiment with chaotic brilliance by playing with your expression outside of traditional narratives, mediums and rigid structures.
A step-by-step guide for gradually increasing your visibility in alignment with your values and goals.
Personal Visibility Action Plan
Tangible Takeaways
Get your hands on the most updated version of the workbook that broke the internet
The Creative Living Workbook
A personalised set of creative writing and somatic practices to maintain your sense of self-worth and purpose, independent of external validation.
Resilience Toolkit
A workbook filled with affirmations and practices personal to your own experience to support you in moments of doubt.
Courage Manifesto
A place to organise ideas, find all frameworks we share, all somatics, and to practise creative writing daily.
Creative Living Notion Dashboard
And one day,
you notice
you are
writing & creating
for the sake of
self-expression.
You’ll learn to back yourself as someone who speaks their truth without fear.
To believe in your creativity before anyone else does.
To trust that your ideas are worth exploring, even if they're met with silence.
And we’ll give you the tools & guidance to know yourself, express yourself, and back yourself – so that when you are ready to show up, you can do it with full confidence, regardless of the response.
your body knows
When your body can truly let go, when it learns how to feel safe in the present moment, that’s when the real creative act happens. Ideas don’t need to be forced, they just flow. You loosen your grip and realise that with an open palm, your own creative intuition drops everything you need right into it.
Mindset and creative writing are half the equation, but—your body needs to be in the game too. We’re going to explore proven somatic work, to release years and years of self-censorship, shame, and fear, so your creativity can flow freely.
Creative Living, Spring 2025 (Live) Session:
Doors open
24 Feb
start date
19 March
investment
$488
duration
8 Weeks
end date
9 May
Meet your guides and co-creators
The energetics of creativity
Hola, I'm Maia
As a writer, Kundalini teacher and mindset/energetic coach, I've dedicated my life to understanding the intricate relationship between our energy systems and creative expression.
Nope, I’m not talking about "unlocking chakras" or "clearing blockages”.
Through my years of creation and play, I’ve realized that our creative energy is so much more than a personal resource—it's our connection to the collective consciousness and the driving force of cultural evolution.
By working with our energetic systems, we're tuning ourselves to better receive, process, and contribute to the world.
We will:
Explore the concept of creativity as a conversation with the universe, not just a personal monologue
Learn about the energy centers in the body, and how to work with your own energy through somatics and kundalini technology.
Develop practices to maintain creative resilience, and drop back into a safe place in the body, even in the face of judgement and misunderstanding
Understand how our energetic patterns shape our cognitive frameworks and vice versa
Discover the ways our bodies try to keep us “safe” by gravitating towards what’s familiar (aka keeping us small), and how we can rewire and re-wild the body
My role is not to give you more techniques to add to your toolkit, but to guide you in fundamentally reshaping your relationship with creative energy itself.
Hi, I'm Lois
As a writer, copywriter, and writing coach, I've long been fascinated by the power of words to shape reality, give people hope, open new ways of thinking and change someone’s mind.
Writing is so much more than a means of communication or self-expression — it's a tool for cognitive evolution and cultural transformation. Sometimes the most powerful writing you’ll ever create is the work you DON’T share.
The expression of creativity
The writing practices I'll share are designed to do more than help you "find your voice." You will:
Challenge the myth of originality and learn to consciously participate in the remixing of ideas
Use writing as a means of understanding and reshaping your own thought patterns, a tool to get to know what you think about yourself and the world around you
Develop humility while simultaneously building unshakeable creative confidence – to balance your boldest ideas and bravest expression with compassion and grace
Learn to hold and explore often conflicting thoughts, beliefs and ideas as a source of creative power
Through our work together, you'll become a more effective communicator and expand your capacity for complex thinking and cultural contribution.
our collective vision
While we both bring different expertise to this program, we have found ourselves deeply connected by a common vision—
to support a fundamental shift in how our society approaches creativity and self-expression and to use writing as a tool to both understand the self and face the world with our truth.
We believe that by revolutionising our individual creative practices through writing and somatics, we can collectively:
Challenge
Outdated paradigms about talent, inspiration, and the creative process
Become
A culture that values cognitive diversity and constructive disagreement
Develop
New opportunities for collaboration and connection of new ideas
Cultivate
A more nuanced, empathetic, SAFE and innovative online conversation
This is an invitation to join a movement—a creativity revolution.
By participating, you're becoming part of a community of leaders and creatives who are redefining what it means to be fully self-expressed in our chronically-visible world.
You are a purpose-driven human, creative, writer (or aspiring writer), artist, entrepreneur that feels deeply grounded in authenticity, but struggles with self-deprecation, people pleasing and chronic self-neglect.
This is for you if:
01
You are comfortable "being seen" but only in the way your perfectly curated public persona allows, which often stops you from saying or creating in a way that feels true to you.
02
You're ready to confront your self-censorship and discover what you're really here to express, even if it's messy or imperfect, even if people misunderstand you, even if you “say it wrong”, even if it doesn't receive immediate acclaim.
03
You're drawn to the idea of building a writing practice and exploring your own self-expression through the written word, but constantly get rugby-tackled by self-protection disguised as perfectionism and the need for external validation.
04
You can feel that tension in your body when you try to show up, when you try to say the thing you really want to, but you’re ready to let your body know it’s safe to be you, unapologetically and out loud.
05
Upon joining, you'll get access to the Creative Living Foundations. They’re broken into bite-size video lessons, each with a practical element and an energetic component.
You’ll have the space to complete the somatic, creative & cognitive exploration exercises at your own pace — no rush, just flow.
Self-Study Lessons
Inside the community, you'll also gain access to the Creative Living Workbook, a comprehensive, interactive journal.
This is so much more than yet another pretty journal destined to gather dust on your shelf. It's a living document, a creative guide and an intellectual exploration that will evolve with you throughout the course and beyond. It will push you to connect dots in new ways, and it will help you to access the levels of your subconscious where your best writing and ideas tend to hide.
The Creative Living Workbook
Our community platform is your go-to for breakthrough ideas, questions, frustrations, and those magical aha moments.
Show up daily, practice being unapologetically you, and connect with a tribe of creatives doing the same.
Community Platform
Got questions? Need feedback? Blocks popping up?
Submit your ideas, frameworks, writing pieces to get personalised insights from your hosts & co-creators, Lois and Maia. We’re here to support you, explore with you, create alongside you and celebrate you.
Mentoring
For the duration of the program, you’ll have access to your own library of resources — somatic practices, creative writing practices and prompts, tapping, meditations, visualisations, and frameworks — to keep you resourced and inspired. This live round will include new practices dropping each week. These are 10 minute, easy-to-implement practices structured for you to dip in and out as you need to.
Creative Living Vault
Use your Creative Living Notion dashboard to organise ideas, create writing pieces, explore your cognitive capacity and walk away from this 8-week journey with this digital universe of ready-to-share ideas, writing and a strong daily system that works with your unique energy flow.
Notion Dashboard
The theme for Creative Living round two is embodiment. You will have all of the tools and support you need to explore your own creativity and have fun with it. The round tables will be there to provide you with a space to experiment with new ideas, practice being seen and heard and connect with the community. The writing challenge is designed to encourage you to build the muscle of expression so it stays with you after the experience is over.
Integration & Embodiment
body of work
When you join Creative Living, you’ll gain immediate access to the 8 core self-led masterclasses from Round One — an in-depth exploration of creative self-expression, visibility, and somatic practices designed to unblock your voice and expand your creative power. Each class includes both a practical and somatic component. In weeks 1-4, you'll join live, high-impact roundtable sessions — interactive, immersive, and designed for real-time creative breakthroughs. These round table sessions are creative playgrounds where you get to test ideas, push past hesitation, and experience the magic of writing, sharing, and expressing without overthinking.
The Masterclasses & Roundtables (weeks 1-4)
Creative Living includes:
8 in-depth video masterclasses blending writing techniques & cognitive exploration with somatic practices & nervous system regulation
Tailored writing prompts to help you explore authentic expression and what it means for you
Guided somatic exercises to release hidden fears and tap into your body's wisdom and unlock intuition from within
A community of like-minded, heart-led creatives learning & growing with you
Support from that community as you explore deeper layers of your thinking
4 weekly live roundtable sessions designed to get you out of your head and into embodiment of the Creative Living principles
Each week, we’ll set the tone on Mondays with a regenerative writing circle, where Lois will introduce a new creative challenge and intention to guide your writing. From Tuesday to Thursday, peer-led practice circles offer a low-pressure, 30-minute space to write alongside others, using the weekly prompts to build consistency and momentum.
From week 4, on Fridays, Maia’s integration circles provide a space to reflect, process, and absorb everything that’s shifting within you. Through somatic practices, journaling and deep conversation, you’ll reconnect with your creative energy in a way that feels sustainable, embodied and deeply true to you.
This rhythm — weekly ignition, daily practice, and deep integration — ensures that what you uncover becomes part of you and your practice sticks. This is how you become the kind of person who writes, creates, and speaks freely,
not just sometimes, but always.
The Embodiment & Integration (weeks 4-8)
We will
Commit to the practice — not just when it’s easy, but when it matters most.
Practice being seen/heard and expressing new ideas with a group of like-minded creatives
Have the community support for processing your transformation
Build creative momentum — so creativity feels like something that naturally flows from you.
Create a sacred space to fully embody your evolved creative identity
Rewrite the story of resistance — so doubt, self-censorship, and hesitation no longer hold power over your expression.
Let the work shape us — because true creative breakthroughs happen when we show up, again and again, and allow ourselves to change in the process.
The Resources
The Creative Living Notion
Throughout the experience, you'll learn how to use your Creative Living Notion dashboard to organise your intellectual, explorations, create writing pieces, explore your cognitive & creative capacity.
Walk away from this 8-week journey with a digital universe of ready-to-share ideas, writing and a strong daily system for creativity that works with your unique energy flow.
The Somatic Vault
An on-demand library filled with practices designed to help you build a personal practice, release beliefs you hold subconsciously and somatically, cultivate courage and resilience, and tap in whenever you feel resistance—or crave expansion.
This is your daily online dose of somatic practice and hot magik with Maia.
Whether you're completely new to somatic/energy work or looking to deepen your practice, The Vault is your sanctuary for modalities crafted to channel creative energy, awaken your intuitive powers, and nurture the self-worth needed to stand tall in your truth.
The Creative Living Workbook
This workbook broke the internet on release with hundreds printed around the world. You'll get an updated 2025 copy of the Creative Living Workbook, a comprehensive interactive guide.
This is so much more than yet another pretty journal destined to gather dust on your shelf. It's a living document, a creative guide and an intellectual exploration that will evolve with you throughout the course and beyond.
It will push you to connect the dots in new ways, and it will help you to access the levels of your subconscious where your best writing and ideas tend to hide.
These aren't your typical "write about your day" prompts– they're designed to catalyse profound shifts in how you view yourself and your creative potential.
Prompts & Shifts
three
More than just a collection of affirmations, this is a framework for reconnecting with your core truths and values.
Courage Manifesto
two
This step-by-step guide is designed to help you gradually increase your visibility and presence in a way that feels authentic and aligned with your values.
Personal Visibility Action Plan
one
Here's a peek inside:
workbook
the
Inspiration strikes, but consistency builds careers. These frameworks are designed to help you generate new ideas, and more importantly, establish a sustainable creative practice that will continue long after the program ends.
Writing Frameworks
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Techniques for managing self-doubt, strategies for bouncing back from criticism or rejection, frameworks to prepare yourself for backlash when you know you're about to share something that pushes common thinking and practices for maintaining your creative spark even when motivation wanes.
Resilience Toolkit
five
Express your most challenging ideas with clarity, nuance, and impact. This collection of communication strategies will help you articulate your thoughts effectively and respectfully, even when discussing controversial topics.
Communication Playbook
four
Creative Living invites you to be the person that chooses depth, authenticity, and full self-expression instead.
Why Creative living? Why now?
It feels like, right now, the digital world where we spend (way too much of) our time favours quick soundbites, catchy one-line hooks, or “rage bait” over nuanced thought, compassion, and healthy dialogue,
Creative Living doesn’t simply mean living a soft life, slowing down and romanticising everything you do–
it’s also dropping into the depths of your thinking, knowing yourself, having hard conversations and liberating your voice from the layers of guilt, shame, and other people's expectations that have drowned YOU out.
Regardless of how anybody else receives it.
This is what Creative Living means to us.
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
— Maya Angelou
The tools to explore your complex ideas more deeply and with clarity
The courage to stand behind your unique perspective – whether you get a bad reaction or no reaction at all
A sustainable practice for consistent, authentic communication that supports you in creating a body of work around your ideas, writing, way of life
A vault of somatic resources to unblock your voice when you're feeling resistance
The self-awareness of what truly sounds like YOU
The audacity to lead the conversations that have the power to change your life
The confidence to speak truthfully, anywhere, to anyone and back yourself 100%
The nervous system resilience in your body to take big leaps
After 8 weeks, you'll have:
Being and owning who you are, on your terms.
Every day.
We're exploring your deepest thinking, combining visceral somatic practices with razor-sharp writing techniques.
We’re learning how to tap into your creative energy, once and for all, so you can start living creatively.
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